Hopes of new meningitis vaccine
A SOUTHAMPTON professor gave his inaugural lecture on meningococcal meningitis this week less than a month after three first-years at the university died of the disease. John Heckels, professor of...
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Arts schools open doors to schools
The London Institute will get Pounds 350,000 of National Lottery money for its Young at Art project linking its five art colleges to local schools and colleges. Camberwell College of Arts plans to...
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Three artists to take residence in Gloucester
The Arts Council has also awarded Pounds 89,800 to Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog for the funding of three artists in residence. The first, yet to be appointed, will be based...
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Exeter strains to raise standards
QUALITY watchdogs have called on Exeter University to brush up its quality monitoring, saying its system is under strain. The university told the 糖心Vlog Quality Council when it visited in...
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Quality agency to get degree powers
Five members of an advisory committee to ministers on whether institutions can become universities have resigned ahead of Quality Assurance Agency reforms. The committee is expected to lose the...
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Scots act to ease contract solitude
THE ACADEMIC life of a contract researcher can frequently fit all of Hobbes's dismal description: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. But the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council is taking...
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Food safety agency delayed
The white paper on the promised food standards agency has been delayed as arguments over its nutritional role escalate. According to a Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food insider, the final...
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Leeds v-c makes a million
THESALE of a thriving university company to a United States firm has netted its founder, Leeds University vice chancellor Alan Wilson, close to Pounds 1 million. Financial details of the deal...
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'Cosy' publishers come under academic fire
Academics want big changes to the way their articles are handled by the publishing industry, according to a survey on journal writing, refereeing and editing. Suggestions include shortening the time...
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Act now for more open universities
Despite paying lip-service to open access, Oxbridge remains a bastion of the upper professional classes. If it truly wants to admit more state-school students, there is plenty it can do, argues...
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Skill needed in setting standards of information
Not all academic standards can be displayed quantitatively. But, says Anthony Fletcher, the exercise can provide valuable insights The Dearing committee's report has put the issue of academic...
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Darwinian dissent
Darwinian evolution is easy to understand but difficult to accept, since mere mortals are as intimately bound by the same basic processes to secure survival as everything else and most inevitably...
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Fightback of beyond
Stephen Glover, in his review of the magazine Prospect (THES, November 7), writes: "If you are living in the back of beyond in Wisconsin, a glossy magazine may be your only lifeline to sentient...
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Bristle over brush-off
Apropos "John Smith's" efforts to break open the closed old-boy network in research fund application reviewing (THES, November 14) why not go the whole hog with "reform" and apply the same "...
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Copycats and fat cats
We are partners with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in managing the Copyright Licensing Agency. ALCS's claim that publishers "took all the money" from journal photocopying (THES,...